Prepare a two-page (TYPED) summary of an article selected from an academic journal. Examples of academic journals include Justice Quarterly, Criminology, and Crime and Delinquency. THE ARTICLE SHOULD NOT BE MORE THAN THREE YEARS OLD. Articles from magazines, newspapers, Corrections Today, Lexis-Nexis or the internet are not appropriate for this assignment. The article must be on one of the following topics:
Women in prison
Prison programs
Parole
Shock Incarceration
Violence in prison
Prison discipline
Supermaxes (this is the one i am choosing)
Sex Offenders
Probation
Intermediate Sanctions
Your summary should address the following areas:
1. Purpose of the study
2. Methods used to conduct the research
3. Results of the study
4. The conclusion reached by the author
How to find articles
1. go the library’s page, https://library.buffalostate.edu/home
2. highlight “Find”
3. choose “databases a-z”
4. click on the letter “S” (Sage)
5. click on Sage Humanities & Social Sciences